Suffocate City

In this episode, we got to hang out with an (anonymous) badass Autopsy Tech! Come hang out with us as she shares what goes into performing an autopsy, working with everyone from Investigators to Funeral Directors, and why being an Autopsy Tech is one of the best jobs in the world.

*Heads up! We're throwing up a TW for suicide and child death for this episode.

Did you miss us? We're back, baby! We spoke with Kalisto aka @deathanthropologist, a Funeral Director and Embalming Intern. He's also an advocate for disability justice, the LGBQIA+ community, and decolonization. Join in our discussion as we talk about everything from the first black embalmer, preplanning in the trans community, and the hate funeral florists get.

In this minisode, we finaaaaally get around to talking about WandaVision! Did we love it or did we LOVE it? Join us as we discuss how the show cleverly addresses the heavy theme of grief, death, and loss. We also spend plenty of time talking about how the whole cast can get it.

In this episode, Elena Kangy-Loux joins us! Elena is a lacemaker, historian, and sentient pile of doilies. Listen in as we talk about the intersection of lace & death throughout history, her TikTok series "Beyond the Veil'', designing an iconic collar for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and when the business of lace was just to die for.

We were lucky enough to sit down with pet mortician and grief advocate Lauren, aka Precious Creature. We talk about the grief of losing a beloved pet, memorial taxidermy and skeletal preparations of pets (and why it isn't weird!), her ossuary passion project, and how our furry familiars are like family to us.

We truly enjoyed hanging out with Troy, host of the podcast Dunzo. Join us as we kickoff Season 2 discussing celebrity deaths and the unique process of grieving the passing of a celebrity. We touch on Brittany Murphy's untimely demise, mourning someone you've never met, how Betty White is holding together the fabric of reality, and much much more.

To close out season 1, we go back to the beginning when it was just Ally & Avery chatting. Join us as we visit a time where looking death in the face was unavoidable and people outwardly displayed their grief through Victorian Mourning Rituals.

In this episode, we're joined with a prominent figure in the death positive community, Dr. Paul Koudounaris. We explore erotic hauntings (Yes, you read that right!), animal welfare graves, experiencing death culture all over the world, and his accomplished author and cosplaying cat, Baba.

Today's episode features James Freeman of Freeman and Fugate Oddities Co! James schools us all about Houdini (Seriously, we think he's Houdini's #1 fan!), the history of Ouija boards, and honoring relics of the past and sometimes using them as a way to overcome our fears.

We're back from our holiday hiatus with an extra special episode! We sat down with TikTok extraordinaire @EnbyHistorian. We cover a lot of ground about history, death, and TikTok! We talk shocking medical history, opium for kids, bloodletting, trepanation, frozen mummies, earliest ancestral burials, and MUCH more.